A Guide for Applicants
Why should you come to Strathclyde to study the MSc Economic Management and Policy degree?
There are several reasons why you will find the MSc EMP Programme a wise choice for your postgraduate study.
- Excellent job prospects
- An interesting, stimulating degree, unlike any other you will find elsewhere
- Warm, welcoming staff
- Great facilities
- Ideal class sizes and excellent mix of students
- Focus on applications of economics to business and public affairs
- High quality teaching and research ratings
- A strong seal of approval has been awarded to the Degree as the MSc EMP Degree is the only postgraduate masters degree in economics that is Recommended by the UK Government Economic Service.
Please take a few moments to read the document linked here, where we provide evidence to substantiate these claims. You may also wish to contact Roger Perman, the Programme Director, by e mail (r.perman@strath.ac.uk) or telephone, (0)141 548 3845/3871, to discuss these matters in more detail personally. (For e mail, you can also use the Contact Us link on the menu bar at the right of this page.)
Why study economics?
The following link takes you to an external web site - maintained jointly by the Royal Economics Society and by the Economics Centre of the Higer Education Academy - which explains why it is so advantageous to you to study a degree course in economics: Why Study Economics?
Admission requirements
The Masters in Economic Policy and Management is open to
- graduates in economics
- graduates with a degree in which economics played a significant part
- graduates from numerate disciplines
For the last two groups in the list above, we may require that some preparatory study is undertaken before joining the MSc programme. Two alternatives are available (with the Course Director deciding which if any is appropriate for a particular applicant). For each, completion will guarantee a place on the MSc:
1. The study of a preparatory reading programme in micro and macro economics during the summer prior to entry to the MSc. This preparatory reading consists of two texts:
- "Macroeconomics" by N Gregory Mankiw (Hardcover, May 29, 2002, 5th edition, Publisher: Worth Publishers, ISBN: 0716752379
- "Principles of Microeconomics" by N Gregory Mankiw. (Hardcover, March 24, 2003, Publisher: Brooks Cole, ISBN: 032420308X)
2. In exceptional cases, where an applicant is keen to study our postgraduate degree programme but has no prior economics background, a two year Full-Time route is offered. In the first year, a variety of courses in economics or business subjects are taken from undergraduate classes in the Strathclyde Business School. Then, in the second year, the MSc programme itself is taken.
Please note that the MSc Programme is also available in Part-Time and Open-Learning modes. Admissions requirements to these routes are broadly similar to those listed above, but we may be more flexible in what is expected of you prior to admission in these cases.
English language
As all tutoring and interaction on the MSc takes place in the English language, a good degree of fluency in English is an entrance requirement. Where your mother tongue is English, or your first degree was in that medium, or you can provide us with some evidence of a reasonable level of fluency in the English language, there is no special requirement. In other cases, the University requires that applicants reach its minimum standard:
TOEFL score of 600 (250 in computer test), or 6.5 in IELTS.
Application procedure and forms
- General information for prospective students
- A hard copy of the PG Application Form, for postal delivery to the University, can be downloaded at this link
- An on-line interactive application form, with an automatic acknowledgement to the applicant, is available at:
www.io.strath.ac.uk/non-european.htm
- Information on financial assistance and scholarships for EU/home students can be accessed at :
About Strathclyde University and the City of Glasgow
Information about University accommodation can be found on the internet on the following page :
www.strath.ac.uk/Departments/RESCAT/
The International Office has prepared useful information for prospective international students (including cost of living) on :
www.io.strath.ac.uk/prep-students.htm
A personal view of things to do as a student in Glasgow by one of our economics students :
About glasgow : a personal view
General information on the city can be found at :
